Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bynum, W. F. (William F.), 1943-, Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Art and science of medicine
  • Place of medicine
  • What is specific to Western medicine
  • Historiography of medicine
  • Medical care
  • Body systems
  • Anatomical tradition
  • Microscopical tradition
  • Physiological tradition
  • Biochemical tradition
  • Pathological tradition
  • Immunological tradition
  • Clinical research
  • Theories of life, health and disease
  • Concepts of health, illness and disease
  • Ideas of life and death
  • Humoralism
  • Environment and miasmata
  • Contagion/germ theory/specificity
  • Nosology
  • Ecology of disease
  • Fevers
  • Constitutional and hereditary disorders
  • Mental diseases
  • Nutritional diseases
  • Endocrine diseases
  • Tropical diseases
  • Cancer
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Diseases of civilization
  • Understanding disease
  • Unorthodox medical theories
  • Non-western concepts of disease
  • Folk medicine
  • Arab-Islamic medicine
  • Chinese medicine
  • Indian medicine
  • v. 2. Clinical medicine
  • History of the doctor-patient relationship
  • Art of diagnosis: medicine and the five senses.
  • (cont) Science of diagnosis: diagnostic technology
  • History of medical ethics
  • Women and medicine
  • Drug therapies
  • Physical methods
  • Surgery (traditional)
  • Surgery (modern)
  • Psychotherapy
  • Childbirth
  • Childhood
  • Geriatrics
  • Medicine in society
  • History of the medical profession
  • medical education
  • Hospital
  • Medical institutions and the state
  • Public health
  • Epidemiology
  • History of personal hygiene
  • General history of nursing: 1800-1900
  • Emergence of para-medical professions
  • Psychiatry
  • Health economics: finance, budgeting and insurance
  • Medicine, ideas and culture
  • Medicine and colonialism
  • Internationalism in medicine and public health
  • Medicine and anthropology
  • Religion and medicine
  • Charity before c.1850
  • Medical philanthropy after 1850
  • Medicine and architecture
  • Medicine and literature
  • War and modern medicine
  • Pain and suffering
  • Medical technologies: social contexts and consequences
  • Medicine and the law
  • Medical sociology
  • Demography and medicine
  • Medicine, mortality and morbidity.